Chapter nine of The Cambridge Companion contributed to my understanding of how money is related to Jane Austen’s novel, Pride and Prejudice. Chapter nine of Cambridge showed how your money and/or income relates to your status, power and overall place in their society. The chapter showed that with the more money you had, the higher your status was. There was new money and old money. It did not matter whether your money was new or old, the more you had the higher up you and your family were. It was commonly known that it was frowned upon if you associated with someone of lower class than you. However, in the book, Pride and Prejudice, we see an interaction between a high and middle to low class families. The Bennet family is not nearly as well off as the Bingley's, yet we still see a relationship between the two families.
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